What we gain and my concern was then and it remains today is that the biggest threat we face is the possibility of terrorist groups like al Qaeda equipped with weapons of mass destruction, with nukes, bugs or gas. That was the threat after 9/11 and when we took down Saddam Hussein we eliminated Iraq as a potential source of that.

If your biggest concern was eliminating potential sources of weapons for terrorists, why is it that you shot some old Texas lawyer instead of Rumsfeld or yourself?

No, we know he has a heart. A clogged, fat-filled heart that almost did the world some good in taking him out of it.

You're behind the times. Cheney is currently shopping his new book, which is about his medical problems and his recent experience of having a heart transplant. As someone pointed out upthread, he probably has the heart of a 16 year old boy now.

I guess this means no more zombie Dick Cheney jokes, now that he has a pulse again.

exick:What we gain and my concern was then and it remains today is that the biggest threat we face is the possibility of terrorist groups like al Qaeda equipped with weapons of mass destruction, with nukes, bugs or gas. That was the threat after 9/11 and when we took down Saddam Hussein we eliminated Iraq as a potential source of that.

If your biggest concern was eliminating potential sources of weapons for terrorists, why is it that you shot some old Texas lawyer instead of Rumsfeld or yourself?

Saddam wasn't exactly cozy with al Qaeda. There was no way they were getting ahold of his non-existent WMDs. Cheney's either being disingenuous or he's been drinking way too much of his own Kool-Aid.

They better install one of those huge toilet paper dispensers on his headstone when he dies, People will be lining up to take a dump on his grave, because spitting or pissing on it just isn't good enough!

I'm resisting the urge to say something that will make the RCMP visit my house... but Cheney dying a painful, degrading death here and now really wouldn't be as bad as what will happen, which is that history* will judge him as a powerful psychopath drenched in blood on a scale that mere dabblers like Dirlewanger and Mengele could only dream of.

Hey, save a slice of that blame pie for the 70% of Americans who couldn't be bothered to spend the five seconds necessary to realize the administration's claims simply didn't add up. Of course, you'll have trouble finding them... none of them admit it now.

Not anymore. All he needed was the heart of an innocent young boy to restore his vigor.

I suppose that means his lifetime of heart troubles are behind him at last, and we can look forward to many more years of this Dick.

hurray

If there is any justice in the world The Fates sent that heart his way to enable him to have the strength for a long, painful and ultimately unsuccessful battle with a particularly aggressive form of ass cancer.

cchris_39:The reading comprehension around here is somewhere between Creationist Peter and Feral Peter.

Please enlighten us, o wise one: which part of this quote are we misinterpreting?

"What we gain and my concern was then and it remains today is that the biggest threat we face is the possibility of terrorist groups like al Qaeda equipped with weapons of mass destruction, with nukes, bugs or gas. That was the threat after 9/11 and when we took down Saddam Hussein we eliminated Iraq as a potential source of that."

fusillade762:cchris_39: The reading comprehension around here is somewhere between Creationist Peter and Feral Peter.

Please enlighten us, o wise one: which part of this quote are we misinterpreting?

"What we gain and my concern was then and it remains today is that the biggest threat we face is the possibility of terrorist groups like al Qaeda equipped with weapons of mass destruction, with nukes, bugs or gas. That was the threat after 9/11 and when we took down Saddam Hussein we eliminated Iraq as a potential source of that."

Even if you take Cheney's statement is the most positive light possible - that Saddam could have created a bomb, and he could have become friendly with al Qaeda, and he could have decided to part with the WMD's he had spent decades building by giving them to someone over whom he had no control, and who could have very well used them against Saddam himself - even if you assume that all of that is true, you still have to recognize one simple, incontrovertible fact:

We create thousands upon thousands of more terrorists and extremists by invading Iraq than we ever killed there. The US invading Iraq was the greatest recruiting commercial for terrorists in the world since the Russians invaded Afghanistan.

fusillade762:Please enlighten us, o wise one: which part of this quote are we misinterpreting?

"What we gain and my concern was then and it remains today is that the biggest threat we face is the possibility of terrorist groups like al Qaeda equipped with weapons of mass destruction, with nukes, bugs or gas. That was the threat after 9/11 and when we took down Saddam Hussein we eliminated Iraq as a potential source of that."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN_vgTsRdjM,Download with AllDebridThere are few things that can actually cause me to tremble with anger. But there is no Hell that's hot enough for sociopathic MFs like Cheney.